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Congratulations on your last edition: no mention of Porfirio Rubirosa ! When will I congratulate you again for not mentioning Senator McCarthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 17, 1954 | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...world's noisiest lovebirds, Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabor, whose California divorce from Cinemactor George Sanders will become final next April, and Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, who will be divorced by Heiress Barbara Hutton in Paris any month now, flew separately from the U.S. to Paris and immediately began a well-publicized twittering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 19, 1954 | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

With some 30 newsmen and photographers in tow, Zsa Zsa, got up in a man-killing black ensemble, glided into a flossy Montparnasse bistro and cornered her pomaded prey. As the cameras converged on him, Rubirosa snarled at the photographers: "You'll not take any pictures of me with Miss Gabor." Actress Gabor, making the most of a big emotional scene, quietly began to cry. Unmoved, Rubirosa curled his lip and told her: "Get out! I don't need you!" Zsa Zsa went-by taxi straight to Rubirosa's Paris home, where she was a house guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 19, 1954 | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

After 73 days of marriage but little bliss, Five & Dime Store Heiress Barbara Hutton and Dominican Playboy-Diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa "mutually decided that it is wisest for us to separate." The honeymoon had been a mishmash of thrills (Rubi finished second in the Sebring twelve-hour sports-car endurance race), spills (Babs broke an ankle in her Manhattan bathroom), and finally chills (Babs left Rubirosa in their Palm Beach mansion last week and moved in with her aunt). For all of Porfirio's junior standing (he has racked up four marriages to Barbara's five), the round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...agonizing 1½ miles to the pits. But it was no use; the Lancia never got started. Cunningham's Osca, brakes and clutch almost gone, held on to take first. It had covered 884 miles in twelve hours, at an average speed of 73.6 m.p.h. Porfirio Rubirosa's Lancia, its gearbox all but wrecked, finished second. Said Winning Driver Bill Lloyd: "Nothing surprises me in an endurance race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Twelve-Hour Test | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

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